site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com thanks for the answer you're right it is unfortunate On Aug 30, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Brian Bechtel wrote: On Aug 29, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Dmitry Markman <dmarkman@mac.com> wrote: I found situation with 64 bit on Snow Leopard as quite confusing Dmitry Markman _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... 3. whatever kernel you booted from arch command always return i386 4. uname -m return x86_64 if you booted from 64 bit kernel, otherwise it returns i386 5. uname -p always returns i386 Arch and uname -p both return the processor family type, i386. (as opposed to ppc or arm.) I think the rationale was that too many scripts depend upon this behavior. uname -m tells you which slice of xnu you booted from, i. e. x86_64 for the 64 bit kernel, i386 for the 32 bit kernel. It's unfortunate that the phrase i386 has two meanings. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com